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Robert763:

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--- Quote from: Zucca on July 14, 2022, 04:12:18 am ---UK gang!!!!

What are you waiting for??????

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/buysellwanted/fs-tdk-lambda-gen-60-55-0-60v-dc-0-55-a-3-3-kw-power-supply/new/#new

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A three phase supply........

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Even in Italy I have 3PH 380VAC... Germany did a wonderful job in wiring up their grid. The three phases there are almost everywhere.
I would like to buy it a play with a 220VAC to 3phases 380VAC VFD... if I would be in UK.
Not trying to push it, I am so surprised it is still dancing for sale and nobody has bought it already.

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The three phase is what kills interest in it. You just won't see a three phase installation anywhere in the UK where the demand is for less than ~125A single phase. It's just how the power company has always done it. Three phase installations outside of industry or large buildings are very rarely seen. It costs a small fortune to get a three phase supply installed anywhere that wasn't planned with a 3 phase supply ab initio. It almost always entails significant streetworks (of the digging variety) which puts a several thousand pound price tag on even the most trivial work.

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Exactly that.
There is 3 phase in the street but not in the house. If I could get an extension lead from two neigbours I'd be set though  ::)
EV's and non-gas heating is driving  three phase supplies for some new build housing though.

25 CPS:
Searching for equipment pretty broadly by manufacturer name to see what turns up locally can cause some frustration.  A lot of Hickock products were manufactured under license here by Stark.

The result:  Tons of merchandise from the Ironman movies with the occasional piece of interesting electronics mixed in.

factory:

--- Quote from: Robert763 on July 14, 2022, 11:07:21 am ---TEA

Anyone in UK @BD139 want a thermal TRMS meter?
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/403774543294

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--- Quote from: bd139 on July 14, 2022, 11:11:20 am ---Already seen it. At that price, no  :-DD

I am after a decent 3400A but the other seller who had one didn’t want to shift it at the price I wanted to pay. I can afford to wait

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Much prefer this one, but the seller didn't respond last year, when I enquired about shipping a counter, so no point asking again. https://www.ebay.de/itm/225070026339

 I do have a 3403A bought from the USA, condition is not quite as nice, not helped by crap packing.

Not having much luck ATM, trying to persuade US sellers to add international shipping either.  :-//
One such example, seller name "globalmachinesales" they are not interested in "global" as only US shipping is advertised and definitely not interested in "sales" as they can't be bothered answering either of the two messages I sent.  :-DD

David

mnementh:

--- Quote from: Specmaster on July 13, 2022, 08:52:05 pm ---
--- Quote from: mansaxel on July 13, 2022, 08:31:27 pm ---
--- Quote from: AVGresponding on July 13, 2022, 04:39:28 pm ---You may well be right, istr the last stuff made here was the Vivaro van, and they maybe did announce its imminent demise/offshoring. Bloody scandalous is the murder of our car manufacturing industry.

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Most of it actually deserved it.

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Ouch, that hurts. We did at one time have an industry that was highly prized, but we got complacent and let the world overtake us instead of making them play catchup.
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No worse than over here. We almost had a paradigm shift with GM and Saturn; the SL1/SL2s were a real contender with Corolla and Camry for the kind of "10 years, zero-hassle" car ownership mansaxel speaks to in a later post. Then things looked really promising with the EV1, which people loved so much GM had to send out bounty hunters to get them all back.

Then GM discovered a loophole in the gas guzzler tax, so axed the EV1, and soon followed Saturn itself. And now we have effing EV Hummers & Hybrid Escalades instead.  :wtf:

It's kindof telling that Toyota can bring plants over here to comply with ever-increasing trade imbalance legislation, and still whoop our butts building their vehicles with our own workers and supply chain infrastructure.

mnem
 :horse:

Cerebus:

--- Quote from: Robert763 on July 14, 2022, 05:20:55 pm ---There is 3 phase in the street but not in the house. If I could get an extension lead from two neigbours I'd be set though  ::)
EV's and non-gas heating is driving  three phase supplies for some new build housing though.

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You might need quite long extensions, from what I can make out (from observing single phase power failures) the phases down my street change about every six houses.

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